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Four teenage boys have denied harassing two women in a homophobically aggravated attack after they refused to perform a sex act on a bus.

Two 17-year-olds, a 16-year-old and another boy, 15, appeared at Highbury Corner Youth Court in London on Wednesday to enter not guilty pleas to a charge of causing harassment by using threatening or abusive words or behaviour.

Melania Geymonat, 28, and her girlfriend Christine Hannigan were allegedly targeted by the four teenagers in the early hours of May 30 on the top of a double-decker bus in Camden.

The court heard the boys moved from the back of the bus to surround the women and began making sexual gestures.

During the incident shortly after 2.15am, the boys are said to have demanded they kiss and perform sexual acts.

After the women refused, the four boys then were said to have thrown coins at the women.

Both women were taken to hospital with facial injuries after the alleged incident.